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Sébastien Breteau (born September 5, 1971, in Bordeaux, France), is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of AsiaInspection, a quality control service provider founded in Hong Kong. He is also a French Foreign Trade Advisor (CCE) for China.

Early Life and Education
Sébastien Breteau was born in Bordeaux on September 5th, 1971. He attended Arts et Métiers ParisTech, a French Engineering school and graduated in 1992. He also attended the HEC Business School in Paris and graduated in 1997.

Early Career
Sébastien Breteau started his career in the Sagem group in Hong Kong developing his experience in the Asian supply chain. Following his graduation from HEC Paris in 1997 he founded SEBO in Hong Kong. Specialized in the conception and export of promotional products and packaging for French industrial groups, SEBO has opened offices in France, China, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Denmark. In 1997, he was the first to import tamagotchis from China to France.

AsiaInspection
In 2002, he founded AsiaInspection, a quality control service provider specialized in consumer goods for western SME’s producing in China. The company today has 650 employees offering product inspections, audits and lab testing services in 19 countries throughout Asia.

AsiaInspection received the Best SME award from Christine Lagarde, then Minister of Commerce and Industry of French Republic, on behalf of the French Chamber of Commerce in 2006 for the development of their proprietary quality control online platform. In 2006, he sold SEBO and he focused on the development of AsiaInspection.

In 2011, he forged a joint venture between AsiaInspection and Silliker, a Mérieux NutriScience company, to perform food inspections in Asia.

Community Involvement
In 2013, he founded the Breteau Foundation, which aims at promoting education for children in developing countries. The Foundation develops and curates education materials and tools for the highest number of grade 1 to 5 children in emerging countries. These contents are then localised and a distributed through local web platforms in classrooms.

Other Work and Honours

 * Sébastien Breteau is a recognized expert in outsourced manufacturing and the quality control services industry . The Wall Street Journal and Forbes quoted Sebastien Breteau on the increase in demand for social audits following the Rana Plaza and other tragic accidents which caused massive loss of life in the manufacturing industry in Asia during 2012 and 2013.
 * French Foreign Trade Advisor in China.
 * Angel investor.
 * Sponsor of the Louvre museum.